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The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end , which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which the fuel is used during reactor operation, and steps in the back end , which are necessary to safely ...
John Heaton discusses nuclear waste storage during a meeting of the Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee, Oct. 10, 2023 at Southeast New Mexico College`
A company looking to store spent nuclear fuel in southeast New Mexico went before a federal appeals court Tuesday to defend the proposal from environmental groups and an oil company in the Permian ...
The Texas proposal was similar to another by Holtec International to build a larger spent nuclear fuel storage site in New Mexico near the Eddy-Lea County line. The NRC granted Holtec its license ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of New Mexico, sorted by type and name. In 2022, New Mexico had a total summer capacity of 10,230 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 40,889 GWh. [ 2 ]
The Four Corners Generating Station was constructed on property that was leased from the Navajo Nation in a renegotiated agreement that will expire in 2041. [6] Unit 1 and unit 2 were completed in 1963, unit 3 was completed in 1964, unit 4 was completed in 1969, and unit 5 was completed in 1970.
The Holtec project would see about 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods from generator sites across the U.S. shipped to southeast New Mexico.
Holtec proposed to build a facility to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel rods at the site on the surface, ultimately with a capacity to hold up to 100,000 metric tons of the waste brought into ...